Rapid diagnosis and clinical management of kerion in a pediatric patient with reflectance confocal microscopy

JAAD Case Rep. 2023 Jun 5:38:48-50. doi: 10.1016/j.jdcr.2023.05.034. eCollection 2023 Aug.

Samavia Khan¹, Banu Farabi^{2

3

4}, Alina Zufall^{2

3

4}, Thu Truong¹, Bijan Safai^{2

3

4}, Babar Rao^{1

5}, Adnan Mir^{2

3

6}

¹ Center for Dermatology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Somerset, New Jersey.
² Dermatology Department, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York.
³ Dermatology Department, NYC Health + Hospital/Metropolitan, New York, New York.
⁴ Dermatology Department, NYC Health + Hospital/Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York.
⁵ Department of Dermatology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.
⁶ Dermpath Diagnostics, White Plains, New York.

No abstract available

Keywords: fungal infections; kerion; noninvasive skin imaging; reflectance confocal microscopy; tinea.